Pop It Up! Challenge from Art Impressions!

 Welcome to the newest challenge on the Art Impressions blog!

This time, they want you to

POP IT UP!

Use foam tape to pop up elements, create a pop card of some sort...whatever your heart desires, as long as something is popped up or out.

So...my challenge feature is actually the next one but I am filling in for this one too.

Why, you ask?

Up until now, we haven't found a replacement for our open DT position. Lucky for us, now we have!

We didn't have time to get her all set up this quickly but she'll be joining us in April and you're going to LOVE her!  She's a wonderful marker artist and makes the most adorable cards, many of them dimensional, interactive or shaped cards. For now, you'll have to wait, but just know that we cannot wait to share her work!

I used the brand new ADORABLE 5872 – Bunny GCH Set.

This is meant to be used with the 5344 – Envelope GCH Set
but if you saw my post on Tuesday, you can see
that it can be used on it's own or on a card.

I made 6 Gift Card Holders in 3 different designs.
My popped up elements are the bows, hands and hats.
I placed them on dimensional foam tape to give my GCHs a 3-D look.

My first was a sweet little girl bunny in delicate pinks and pastels.

My second was a little more "upscale" version done in gray and yellow,
with some glitter and velvet to glam it up.

The black, inner part of the eye was made using the little center hole in the letter O from the Journal Letter Die set.

For my third design, I wanted to include the boys. (You all know I love making masculine projects)

I used the inner ear die along with the eye to create a newsboy cap.

This is just the CUTEST set and I can't get enough of it!
Links to all of the Art Impressions dies and papers I used are below.

I hope you've all been enjoying all of the Easter inspiration the Design Teams have been sharing.

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Bonnie and Phil Place Cards from Art Impressions

 Hello everyone and Happy Tuesday!

Today I'm sharing a pair of Easter Place Cards that I made using the new 5872 – Bunny GCH Set.

This set is meant to be a gift card holder add on in conjunction with the 5344 – Envelope GCH Set 
but I also instantly saw adorable place cards for Easter!

Bonnie and Phil's names are written on the little headband 

from the set that I just turned upside down.

Phil's "Page Boy" hat is just one of the inner ear dies turned on its side with
the eye die used for a button.

I used the star and the easel die from the the 5318 – MB Envelope Dies. The star is on the front, and the easel die is used to prop up the place card.

Happy 3rd Birthday Lily

Hello Ai fans!

Today I'm sharing a little craft that I made for a little girl's birthday.  I made her using two of the new Placecard Pals from Art Impressions.

4805 – Cat & Owl Placecard Set

4806 – Christmas Placecard Set

I used the feet and bows from the cat and owl set and the rest was formed from pieces from the Santa and snowman set.  I trimmed the feet and hat to suit my purposes.  Lily's hair was made from Santa's mustache.

Do you know a little girl that would love seeing this at her party?  You can customize the hair, add pig tails, match the outfit to what she's wearing etc.  The possibilities are endless.

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Copics used: 

E02, E50, E93, B02, R00

Cards to Die For challenge from Art Impressions!

Hello Ai fans!

Today is an exciting day at Art Impressions!

They're releasing several new dies and stamps.

There's also a new challenge starting over on the blog.

One of the projects I created uses the new Cat and Owl Placecard Set 4805.

My little owl may look familiar to some of you...It's Hedwig, (or my version of...) Harry Potter's owl.  My friend is reading the entire book series for the first time and she wants to have a HP themed party to celebrate when she's finished.

I told her I would help her make up some of these cute little guys with different spells from Harry Potter on the name card.

And...since Halloween will be here before you know it I also made a little cat for that occasion. 

Normally his tail doesn't show from the front but in this case I wanted it to.  I took and trimmed a piece of paper to the same size as the tail base and glued it on.  I think it looks cute peeking around the front.

My last project was a card using the wonderful new Snowflake Dies 4804.

These worked phenomenally!  Such a clean cut and I used thick cardstock!  So much easier than owning all those different punches and so easy to store!  No big, bulky punches.

I really wanted to showcase the snowflakes so I put them on acetate to make it look like they were really falling. 

On the inside I used

G4169 – Warm your Heart
and
4511 – Snowman Note-able

If you look hard you can see that I added some Wink of Stella on the flakes before adding some flat pack rhinestones to some of them.

See how they just float on the acetate.  (Which by the way was packaging from one of my new Ai sets)  I always save all acetate from packaging for future uses.

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Copics used:

Owl: C00, C3, C5

Cat: E30 E31, E40

Card: R46, R59, YG17, YG67